40 ‘I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.

41 ‘How Sheshak[a] will be captured,
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate Babylon will be
    among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves will cover her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.

40 “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.(A)

41 “How Sheshak[a](B) will be captured,(C)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(D) Babylon will be
    among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves(E) will cover her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.